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Author Topic: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition  (Read 12426 times)

Elephant Parade

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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #60 on: February 08, 2014, 02:01:55 pm »
Quote from: Arx on February 08, 2014, 08:39:23 am
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Eventually the library will run out of Terry Brooks, and on that day I will shout for joy, for I will stop having to read them in the hope that he will do something original.

Now reading: The Winds of Change - Asimov
You still have The Sword of Shannara.

School library is still closed, unfortunately. I do have one book that I got from book club, at least.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #61 on: February 08, 2014, 02:05:42 pm »
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Do we repost, or modify?
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Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on December 28, 2014, 03:28:43 am
Arguably he's already a progressive, just one in the style of an enlightened Kaiser.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #62 on: February 08, 2014, 02:14:01 pm »
I repost.

Spam equals power, you know?
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #63 on: February 10, 2014, 12:18:28 am »
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Payoff! Armageddon's Children is completely different.
Quote from: Elephant Parade on February 08, 2014, 02:01:55 pm
You still have The Sword of Shannara.
It's the fourth book on the list, I think.
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Do we repost, or modify?
I repost, otherwise the list just gets buried by the other reposters.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #64 on: February 10, 2014, 01:41:52 am »
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Umberto Eco remains my hero.  Queen Loana is worth the time.

I think I'm going for Tale of the Three Kingdoms, Kant and the Platypus, and Wuthering Heights for my next three.  I'm sick of WH... kind of ready to have it over and done with.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #65 on: February 10, 2014, 01:45:31 am »
I post here to watch and I wish I had more time for reading than me trying to write. >_>

It's been forever since my allowance allows books that aren't textbooks...
Blleeehh. So much literature. I really want to read them all.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #66 on: February 10, 2014, 06:55:24 am »
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Brecht rules.
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Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on December 28, 2014, 03:28:43 am
Arguably he's already a progressive, just one in the style of an enlightened Kaiser.
Quote from: Wolfhunter107 on May 26, 2017, 08:10:14 pm
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #67 on: February 10, 2014, 07:56:42 am »
That's a lot of Pratchett, Helgoland. I've been reading Raising Steam and I think I've reached life-time Pratchett saturation. He can do clever stuff on the sentential level, and there's a good deal of inventiveness in his oeuvre, but he has maybe three character archetypes and everyone ends up talking and acting like everyone else.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #68 on: February 10, 2014, 08:13:12 am »
Raising Steam? It's supposed to be not so good. Not such a miracle, the guy has Alzheimer's, after all. The early stuff is best.
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Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on December 28, 2014, 03:28:43 am
Arguably he's already a progressive, just one in the style of an enlightened Kaiser.
Quote from: Wolfhunter107 on May 26, 2017, 08:10:14 pm
I'm going to do the smart thing here and disengage. This isn't a hill I paticularly care to die on.

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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #69 on: February 10, 2014, 09:24:45 am »
EDITUPDATED again.
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« Last Edit: February 13, 2014, 12:16:32 am by Arx »
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #70 on: February 12, 2014, 10:47:31 pm »
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Been meaning to read the first, and it's actually decent, not nearly the horror story that disgruntled high school students would make it out to be.

Unfortunately I only found a copy of the third edition of the latter, and Fitzpatrick sort of backed off from her original proposition, which is a shame. Controversy is delicious, after all.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #71 on: February 13, 2014, 02:19:54 am »
Just read "Bridge of Birds, a novel of ancient China that never was". (Yes that's all part of the title).
It was an amazing book, the subject (as I have personally always found mythical China an excellent subject), the writing style, the vibrant characters and how crazy funny it was at quite a few places. Everything came together to make it an exceptional book.

Hmm... Now that I think of it I might as well start a reading list now, better late then never.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #72 on: February 13, 2014, 02:21:05 am »
Quote from: lemon10 on February 13, 2014, 02:19:54 am
Just read "Bridge of Birds, a novel of ancient China that never was". (Yes that's all part of the title).
It was an amazing book, the subject (as I have personally always found mythical China an excellent subject), the writing style, the vibrant characters and how crazy funny it was at quite a few places. Everything came together to make it an exceptional book.

THANK YOU

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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #73 on: February 13, 2014, 10:39:36 pm »
[spoiler4, 5/52]Take A Thief
Mercedes Lackey
2/13/14

The Majesty of the Law
Sandra Day O'Conner
2/13/14[/spoiler]

That's finished off everything I was partway through except Paradise Lost, and I'm still reading that too thoroughly to end any time soon.
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Re: The Official Bay 12 Fifty-Two Books Challenge: 2014 Edition
« Reply #74 on: February 14, 2014, 08:19:38 am »
Forgot an '=' sign in your spoiler tag.
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